Dr Pratyusha Basu (UTEP) calls for articles, special issue of Sustainability, ‘Gender and Rural Devt: Sustainable Livelihoods in a Neoliberal Context.’ (via RGRG News editor BA Scholten): https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/gender_rural …

Rowan Jaines (University of Sheffield, UK)
Natasha Coleman (Swansea University, UK)

This session will focus on elements of the rural that have been disavowed, denied and dispossessed by contemporary human geography. We are particularly interested by the manner in which …

Session Sponsored by the Rural Geography Research Group of the RGS-IBG

Session organisers: Felipe Dr Felipe da Silva Machado, University of Plymouth and Martin Phillips, University of Leicester  

Borders, and associated notions such as of boundaries and borderlands, have long …

Exiting the EU will initiate processes of bordering, re-bordering and de-bordering across a range of policy areas (Cassidy et al., 2018; McCall, 2018). Bordering will have a fundamental impact on the political possibilities of those working in rural areas across …

* Rural Populism: New Emerging Political Geographies of the Rural http://rgrg.co.uk/rural-populism-new-emerging-political-geographies-of-the-rural

* Tracing, Traversing and Transgressing Borders in Rural Geography CfPs to follow http://rgrg.co.uk/tracing-traversing-and-transgressing-borders-in-rural-geography

* Digitisation, Rurality and Changing Spaces – Panel session details to follow

* Beyond the Borderlands …

Call for papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference
London, 1^st-4^th September 2020

New and Emerging Rural Researchers: Rural Research in the 2020s

Session convenor: Aimee Morse, Countryside and Community Research Institute, University of Gloucestershire

This annually held Rural Geography …

 

Rural spaces being commonly framed as marginal borderlands, are increasingly also viewed as areas for conservation, access and the promotion of wellbeing at a range of scales individual, community or regional. Such priorities, often externally determined, arise as responses to

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Populism has become a major topic in academic and public debates and has been linked by some commentators to issues of rural decline and (perceived) marginalisation. Whilst a simple rural/urban dichotomy is not able to account for the success of …

Call for Papers for a  session at the Royal Geographical Society with Institute of British Geographers (RGS-IBG) Conference, London 1-4 September 2020

Stefanie C. Boulila (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts)

Sponsorship: Rural Geography Working Group

In popular …